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Now Shoaib Akhtar goes hammering his buddies with bats.
I beat you to that sir.

That apart, it's sad that we never seem to get to see Shoaib and Asif bowling together. Cricket being the biggest loser.
And it was a valid point that Shoaib raised about the game getting very batsman friendly. It's becoming very one dimensional now... gradual but definite.

Ex: The six Hayden hit of Marlon Samuels was disgusting. You have a bowler who's beaten the batsman in the air and off the pitch and yet gets tonked for a maximum. OK Hayden is one of the strongest around, but mishits, one handed hits with the batsman in a tangle going all the way is ridiculous. Bigger boundaries please.

Hope the big people in cricket management learn from their tennis countrparts and get the game to go back a few years.
Watching tennis is real fun these days with real good players battling it out (if the last 3 grand slams are anything to go by). Compare this to the mid, late nineties when Sampras kept winning the wimbledon. He was good, but damn boring.

Bring back the good old days with big fast bowlers charging in and all.

And finally. Upul Chandana retired. YAY!!!
I heard from a source that they arranged a 24 gun salute for him or something. The soldiers were specifically told to shoot at the sky and not at the chief guest.

The source is not very reliable. So you don't need to believe the piece of news.